by alicee • • Comments Off on Mai-Lin Cheng Receives Two Research Fellowships
CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng was notified recently of an appointment as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Huntington for a period of two months. She also learned that she is the recipient of a UCLA Clark Memorial…
by alicee • • Comments Off on CSWS Research Matters Winter 2017: Kemi Balogun’s book project on beauty diplomacy in Nigeria
2017, Winter: CSWS Research Matters “Beauty Diplomacy: Culture, Markets, and Politics in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry,” by Oluwakemi M. “Kemi” Balogun, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology Kemi Balogun writes about her…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Aletta Biersack’s coedited volume “Gender Violence and Human Rights” now available
February 2, 2017—Cultural anthropologist Aletta Biersack, whose research in Papua, New Guinea, has been supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, has two new volumes just out. The University of Oregon professor emerita of anthropology is coeditor of Gender…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Dyana Mason: CSWS Works-in Progress Talk
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. UO campus A works-in-progress discussion on Monday, May 15 from noon to 1 p.m. will focus on the research of Dyana Mason, Department of Public Planning, Public Policy and Management…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Food Studies Talk: Commodification of Banana in Print and the Formation of American Womanhood across Classes
249 Columbia Hall 1215 E. 13th St. A Food Studies talk by graduate student Helen Huang 2016-17 CSWS Graduate Student Research Award winner Helen Huang will give a talk that explores how bananas were introduced into American food culture and…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Imaginactivism: Author & Activist Starhawk on Social and Environmental Justice
Two appearances in two different locations. 1) Imaginactivism: An afternoon conversation with Renowned Author and Activist Starhawk about Social and Environmental Justice 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Browsing Room, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St., UO campus In this afternoon event…